Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-08
HOME AFFAIRS.
AROUSED BY THE
FREE TRADE DOCTRINE.
Ihe kissane Indictment Dismissed
Iaik About Committees-De-
mand for California Raisins.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RECoRD-us1oN.I
UP IN ARMS,
me Wool-Growers Vigorously Denounce
Cleveland's Free-T-ade nyassaoa


WAsHINGroN, December 7th.-At to-
% Gay session OF the Conference of Wool
growers and Wool Dealers of the United
states the following was unanimously
adopted o'''-S
Inc Wool-Dealers and Wool Growers of
the United States, representing a capital of
over hVe hundred million dollars, and a
constituency of a million wool-growers and
Wool-dealers, assembled in conference and
having read the annual message of the
Fresloent to the Fiftieth Congress. de-
clare that the sentiments of the message
are direct attack upon their industry. one
6 ne most important of the country. ard
IN positive violation of the National Dem
ocratic platform of 1884, as interpreted bv
the party leaders and accepted by the rank
ana hle OF the parry that the argument
made by the President for the removal of
our protection against foreign competition
Is one repeatedly made by the enemies of
our industrial progress, and 50 effectively
answered in nearly every school district of
our land, and thoroughly disproved by the
logic of facts and the demonstration OF
experience and history, as to need no an
swer from US.
We had the right to expect something
different from the Chief Executive of ma.
ton that is the most happy, prosperous and
contented OF any of the world, and made
SO by the policy of protection and the de-
yelopment which he now seeks to DESTROY.
We had right to expect that our Presi-
dent would favor the wool-growers of the
United States, and confess our deep disap-
pointment that instead, he favors the in
terests OF our foreign competitors
We make an appeal from his recon-
mendatlons to the seven and three fourths
millions of our fellow citizens engaged in
agriculture; to the millions engaged in
manufacturing; to the army of wage.
earners; to the tradesmen and merchants,
that their judgment and decision will be
based upon justice and patriotism, and
therefore for the maintenance of the Amer
lean policy OF protection, to which the
country Is indebted for its unexampled de-
velopment and prosperity.
II the whole amount of revenue derived
from wool was abolished, it would reduce
the surplus only about S5,000000, or less
than - cents per capita of the population,
which is paid by foreigners, while the old
war-taxes that he recommends to be re-
tanned yield over $4,000, 900, and is a
direct tax per capita of 81 each.
The annual revenue derived from the
imports OF wool, under the tariff of 1867,
was less than 81, 900. Under the re-
duced tariff of 1883 the revenue last year
was over $5,000,000. The number of sheen
in the country in 1884 was 50,626,6 ,626; in
1887, A, 759, ,314 "a decrease of nearly
100000, and the diminution of the annual
wool product OF over 35,0o0,0OO pounds
thus showing that the reduction of the
tariff by the Act of 1888 has increased the
revenue from imported woods and dimin-
ished the number of sheep in the United
States about II per cent.
The Presidents policy would bring about
the destruction of this iDdustry and tho
same policy of reduction Tor abolition) of
the tariff would end in disaster to all other
industrial productive enterprises of the
country